Jack Vartanian -

Serkan Cura Haute Couture -

Spring Summer 2015. Photo courtesy press office

There are those archistars that when they design a building use a fluidity that usually is reserved for fashion. And then there is fashion that, as Coco Chanel sustained, is actually architecture. It’s a question of proportions. Then there’s contemporary jewelry that takes on an aesthetic that is almost mechanical, exploring the ductile and solid nature of metal, believing in the power of the material.

From this comes powerful rings in which the stone is imaginary, almost virtual. It doesn’t exist. It is made up of empty space and recreated with the imagination to take the place of that oversized diamond that is the true, large missing piece.